NOTICE OF JANUARY COMPETITION MEETING DATE CHANGE:
Because the first Wednesday in January is New Year’s Day, the Club competition meeting has been changed to Wednesday, January 8. Time and place remain the same….7:00 pm at the First Christian Church.
Please mark your calendars for this change. The assigned subject remains the same: “Fog, Mist, or Rain”. I will send out a reminder to submit your photos on December 31, with deadline being Sunday, January 5 at midnight.
The January third Wednesday Education meeting will not change. It will be on January 15.
If you haven’t accessed Jim’s Dropbox email for the photos that need “fixing” please contact Jim Ingraham. You will find four downloadable photos that you can add your own personal post processing spin on. Reviewing them together at our meeting will give you a lot of post processing ideas and hopefully a new skill or two!
Please send your images to Dave Church or bring them on a thumb drive for display and discussion.
This little adventure in ‘horror’ shooting took place at Dale G.’s private studio. I ended up using his Canon 5D Mark IV since my D750 was in repairland. I have to give credit to Dale for the setup, lighting too. My contribution was in the processing and converting the jpeg to an infrared look which really brought out Charlie’s crazy eyes. After that I created a photo filter for a chocolate-brown ambience (that didn’t quite get there). ISO 100, f/7.1/ 2.5 secs. 33mm focal length.
Well…Hello Dolly Dale George
Hello Dolly was shot using a cheep plastic 2 piece backdrop purchased at Halloween City. I taped each sheet to my outside garage wall and carefully matched them together for the complete scene.I placed one of my many props in various positions till I had the pose and adequate distance from the backdrop. It was a foggy day so the subdued light was perfect as plastic backdrops can present a problem with glare.
Shot with a Canon 5DMK IV and 24-70 lens combination. ISO was 250, aperture at f/10 for additional depth of field, shutter speed 1/100 sec. Editing was first done in ON1 Photo 10 Suite. I use this software for its “magic erasure” as it is really good and easily removes objects like fold creases, of which there were many. It seems to be able to clone in what is needed to blend the removed portion.
Lastly, editing was done in Lightroom and some minor tweaking in Color Efex Pro (DXO). Mainly I did some detail extractor, adjustment in bringing out shadows and punching up the whites a bit.
This photo is a composite blend of two night shots. The sky was taken during the 2nd night of the Milepost 97 fire on I5 just South of Riddle. The foreground is the shoreline of Galesville Reservoir. I light painted all of the cracked mud as well as the distant snags.
The foreground and sky both have multiple exposures blended to produce even lighting and depth of field.
